IB Assignment

Minimum 10 Pages for this project

Make a context page about Found Art and 'Art trouve'. Give a detailed history and examples of the kinds of art people make today from found materials

2 x Artist pages - One historical (see PPT) and another from a different culture and from a more recent time. Ensure you: Give facts, image of work, analysis of an artwork, how it inspires you, the process. Compare the artists thoughtfully.

Idea and technique development page (The one you taught as a workshop)

Workshop lesson experiments write ups. (from everyone else)

Final Idea Page with sketch of work, planning about the construction and any reflections you mights have

Anything else? Is there an article that gives your work more context? Is there something else you have learnt about in an other class that relates to this project? Is there another artist that has inspired you since you started? This is all valuable stuff and will give better investigation and more depth to your project.

Found object originates from the French object trouvé, describing art created from undisguised, but often modified, objects or products that are not normally considered art, often because they already have a non-art function. ...

A History

The term ‘recycled art’ is fairly new, but found object art has been around at least since Marcel Duchamp’s 1917 work ‘Fountain‘, which consisted simply of a used urinal. Artists have been salvaging materials from car parts to kitchen utensils for decades, for inclusion in sculptures, paintings, drawing, collages and other examples of ‘found art’. These 13 works of art incorporate reclaimed objects into everything from small sculptures to large-scale installations.

More great artists in PPT below

Places to research

Plastic fusing

Ask yourself questions

Is your artwork made from found objects?Do your experiments in your book relate to your studio work?Have you researched artists that relate to your studio work?Am I doing it exactly like an artist or have I turned a concept/ technique into something else?Have you tried combining different techniques?Am I using the most obvious object/material or am I using symbolism?